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Caption For Broadwindsor, The Village 1902

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

Caption For Roseberry Topping, 1932

Seven miles south west of Saltburn is Roseberry Topping, which rises to 1,057ft above sea level.

Caption For Aylesbury, Canal And Hills And Partridges Lock 1897

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge.

Caption For Abbotsbury, St Catherine's Chapel C1955

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

Caption For Sherborne, Greenhill C1955

Looking west down the hill with some 'modern' streetlighting.

Caption For Andover, Ladies' Walk 1904

Ladies' Walk ends a little more than a kilometre south-west of the bridge where the workman sits on Ladies' Walk.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.

Caption For St Austell, Truro Road C1955

This was the main road into St Austell from Truro and the west before the building of the ring road.

Caption For Montacute, House 1900

The name of the delightful Ham stone village of Montacute derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus', or 'steep hill'.

Caption For Upper Dicker, The Dicker C1955

About two miles west of Hailsham is Upper Dicker, which has a Gothic-style church.

Caption For Haslemere, Haymaking, Longdene 1888

A superb haymaking scene which shows the manpower once required on the land at this hill-top farm, to the south west of Haslemere.

Caption For Port Erin, 1897

In the distance to the left are Bradda Hill, Bradda West and Bradda East.

Caption For Brighton, Devil's Dyke 1894

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Postbridge, The Village 1931

Postbridge takes its name from the arched bridge that was built to carry the post road from Princetown in the south-west to Moretonhampstead in the north-east.

Caption For Broadwas, The Village C1955

Broadwas stands on a ridge, with wonderfully clear views across to the Malvern Hills.

Caption For Kendal, Looking North 1896

This is a general view of Kendal from the south, with the Lakeland hills in the background.The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around

Caption For Shipley, The Glen 1921

A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

Caption For Coniston, The Village 1929

Ramblers (right) head for the hills, striding purposefully out past the Rayburne Hotel and Cafe in the centre of Coniston village.

Caption For Sevenoaks, Upper St John's Hill 1959

St John's Church, built in 1858-9 by Morphew & Green and with its west gable-end facing out onto the road junction, dominates this cross-roads towards the top of the hill.